Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧

CEO, Republic. Author of Abolish the Monarchy. "Only ever wants to start an argument." ~ Buckingham Palace. Chair @AERMorg. 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇪🇺 he/him/his

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Very excited to receive the first copies of the paperback of Abolish The Monarchy. It's out in shops and online from May 9. Available to pre-order from https://t.co/XoS2hd3cjY or https://t.co/ny3AOuNxhG or https://t.co/KzReV145g1
#AbolishTheMonarchy

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Is it because you are highly paid and don't care about those who aren't?

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Royal reporting isn't a serious profession.

[Kate Mansey @KateMansey]

The teen prince opened the curtains, not fully clothed. Visitors stared

@MarkHedgesCL editor of Country Life writes about his magazine’s collaboration with the Prince of Wales in @thetimes ⬇️

https://t.co/VgVZXvqaMp

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

"Submit to their husbands"? It's the 'trad husbands' the journalists should be investigating.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

In America women who homeschool, submit to their husbands and make bread are a social media phenomenon. Katie Glass meets their UK counterparts

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Sycophancy is rotting people's brains.

[Matt Wilkinson @MattSunRoyal]

Incredible drawing of kingfisher by art-loving Prince George, 13, features in magazine guest edited by dad Wills

https://t.co/PcABLNIsH1

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@MattC1456 @paulusmallus Being a patron is not the same as running, working for or funding a charity. He has his name attached to charities, the ones who takes most interest in are those that push his agenda.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

A point of principle about character and abuse of privilege and royalists just say "but he's allowed!" That's kind of the problem.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Quite a few people upset that I pointed out one simple fact: Charles does not meet the criteria for and has done nothing to earn any of the medals pinned to his uniform. He also hasn't earned his ranks, they were given to him by his mum.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@MattC1456 @paulusmallus He gave a donation to others to set up the Prince's Trust. He has not and does not work for it or run it. Given he's neither on their staff nor a trustee if the charity was allowing him to instruct them on what to do they'd be in breach of charity law.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Tomorrow. PR slop for a workshy billionaire hypocrite who lectures the rest of us on homelessness from his four palatial homes and on the environment while destroying huge tracts of the countryside and churning out a huge carbon footprint. 👀
#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

[Cameron Walker @CameronDLWalker]

Tomorrow…👀

[Republic @RepublicStaff]

🧵🧵 William is presenting a 'Conservation in Africa' award, but he's a conservation hypocrite who kills wildlife. #AbolishTheMonarchy

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@MattC1456 @paulusmallus Define "involved in". He has never worked for, run, made decisions for or made significant donations (relative to wealth) to any charities. He hasn't put in hours of volunteering, or indeed hours of anything.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

I assumed it would have been Iceland.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking https://t.co/1de85FPxK7

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Don't think I'd let this one slip by in the whole Russell Brand sentencing -

But Reform Councillor Glenn Gibbons was found GUILTY in court today too!! He thought melting down Nigerians was "just a joke"

A good day for justice all round.

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

I sat down with @KarlTurnerMP for the new Off My Chest podcast from the @MindsAtPeaceF

In 2015, Karl had a beer in Clapham with his nephew Matty, a 25-year-old lawyer who was off work with stress. Over a pint, struggling and fine look the same. Within days, Matty had died by suicide.

Matty had done everything we ask people to do. He went to his GP and was told the wait for talking therapy would be six to ten months. Karl offered to pay for private counselling. Matty said no. He didn’t want to take a place in the queue from someone who couldn’t afford one.

Karl has carried that for a decade. What he’s built from it is a habit any of us could copy: if a friend who has struggled doesn’t pick up after two calls, he drives round and knocks on the door. He knows it can be irritating. Ask anyone who has lost someone, and they’ll tell you they’d rather have been irritating.

We also talk about why an unexplained lump gets a scan within days while a struggling mind gets a waiting list, what criminal law does to the people who practise it, and what an MP can get done with one phone call that most people can’t.

Worth 35 minutes, and worth sending to the friend who’s gone quiet.

@KarlTurnerMP @aak1880

https://t.co/wZGDeyyd9u

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

A list that includes Elmo.

[Mirror Royal @MirrorRoyal]

Prince William named on TIME100 Climate list for pioneering Earthshot Prize work https://t.co/kh4tvtcWja

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@MirrorRoyal That's the same William with a massive carbon footprint and who destroys vast tracts of Scottish countryside so he can shoot grouse for fun? That William?

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

For 77 years, #Commonwealth leaders have refused to even discuss, let alone support, LGBT+ human rights

They met last week in Antigua. LGBT+ equality was AGAIN not on their agenda! 29 leaders persecute LGBTs in defiance of the #CommonwealthCharter that they signed! #CHOGM2026

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

Quite a few people upset that I pointed out one simple fact: Charles does not meet the criteria for and has done nothing to earn any of the medals pinned to his uniform. He also hasn't earned his ranks, they were given to him by his mum.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

The problem with monarchy summed up in one tweet. 'Abolute right' to abuse public office regardless of laws or the opinion of 'lowborns'.

[Daisuke Yamazaka @humming640]

@GrahamSmith_ As the source of all military honors, He has the absolute right to wear any of them, laws in Parliament or opinions of random lowborns notwithstanding.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@JeremyVineOn5 It's ok to ignore nonsense and talk about something else.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@paullewismoney True, but that was inevitable regardless of how many former PMs there are.